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Schools, 1936

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Vacation Tours Favored For Schoolchildren

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 22 May 1936 · page 4

THE committee of the United Associations yesterday endorsed the leading article in the Daily Telegraph on Wednesday, favoring organised vacation tours and camps for school-children…

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Overseas Tour in 1939 for Schoolboys

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 22 May 1936 · page 7

ADELAIDE, Thursday.--The Headmasters' Conference decided today to conduct an overseas tour for Australian public school boys in 1939…

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Lansdowne School of Arts Dances Increasingly Popular

The Biz · Friday 22 May 1936 · page 1

Another successful night was experienced at Lansdowne on Saturday night last, the hall being well patronised. Without a doubt the old-time and new vogue…

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Mount Pritchard Primary School Wanted

The Biz · Friday 22 May 1936 · page 1

A vigorcus movement, to secure a primary school is now evident. For 12 years the people here have teen sending their children (over eight years of age) to the…

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Old-time Ball School of Arts Success

The Biz · Friday 22 May 1936 · page 8

Goldford Soldiers' Memorial School of Arts was the scene of unusual activity on Saturday last, the occasion being an oldtime ball, organised by a ladies'…

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Wetherill Park School of Arts

The Biz · Friday 22 May 1936 · page 4

A general meeting of members of the above was held on Wednesday night, when a new committee and officers were elected. President, Mr. E. Tooker, jnr.;…

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Donation to School

The Biz · Friday 22 May 1936 · page 4

Fairfield school library has been further added to this week by the gen-rous donation pf well-selected books from Mrs. Richardson, of Veron-street, Farifield…

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Public Schools. Headmaster's Praise. "Dangerous Isolation." Adelaide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 May 1936 · page 18

The headmaster of Charterhouse School (Mr. F. Fletcher), in an address after the degree of Master of Arts in the Univeisity of Adelaide had been conferred on him, strongly…

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School's Diamond Jubilee. Address to King

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 May 1936 · page 23

At the Empire Day celebration by the Gordon Public School, in the King's Theatre, Gordon, it was announced that this coincided with the diamond Jubilee of the school…

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Empire Day Celebrated in Schools. Parents Join In

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 May 1936 · page 23

The reading of Earl Beatty's message was a feature of Empire Day celebrations in the metropolitan schools yesterday. In most of the larger school celebrations, the children…

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Ocean Beach Wants School. Woy Woy

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 May 1936 · page 14

At Woy Woy to-day, a deputation waited upon Mr. R. B. Walker, M.L.A. and asked him to make representation to the Education Department for a Public school at Ocean…

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Winter School for Farmers At Hawkesbury College

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 May 1936 · page 15

The Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Main), states that applications will close on June 1 for admission to the winter school for farmers, to be held at the Hawkesbury Agricultural College, Richmond,…

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Govt. Blamed Drop In Teachers

The Sun · Saturday 23 May 1936 · page 3

Commenting on the present shortage of school teachers, the secretary of the N.S.W. Teachers' Federation (Mr. W. J. Hendry) said to-day:--…

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Rotary Schools Well

The Labor Daily · Saturday 23 May 1936 · page 2

IN a trial over three standard hurdles at Randwick yesterday morning, Rotary gave a faultless exhibition of jumping. He ridden by his usual pilot, J. Gollop…

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Music News What Our Schools Need Is Culture

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 23 May 1936 · page 10

THERE is a difference between education and culture. A man may have a profound knowledge of mechanics or medicine, and yet be comparatively uncultured. One wonders whether the…

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Why Not Films For Schools?

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 23 May 1936 · page 6

THERE is a curious time-lag involved in the adamance of the Education Department against visual tuition…

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When I Changed Places With A School-Teacher

The Sun · Sunday 24 May 1936 · page 3

I TURNED my footsteps homewards. Underneath my arm I carried a parcel containing an old-fashioned but exquisitely worked…

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Schoolboy Linesmen

The Sun · Sunday 24 May 1936 · page 52

Two schoolboys, A. Tensdale and J. Whiting, members of Gardener's-road Public School's Australian code football team,…

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Highlights Of The High Schools

The Sun · Sunday 24 May 1936 · page 56

North Sydney appears to have the strongest team in the High Schools Rugby Union competition this…

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The Schoolboy Detective Tricked

The Sun · Sunday 24 May 1936 · page 2

ROB PEARCE and Lionel Martin entered the second-hand bookshop and approached a long counter stretching the full length of the shop…

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